Why is API Testing so Important to Healthcare App Development?

Put the pressures of the test cycle out of mind. In order to know why API testing is so important - especially during healthcare application development - you must take a calm step back to consider exactly what that specific testing does for your organization.

Why is API Testing so Important?

Improve the Coverage of Your Test Cycle

There’s an incentive to minimize all delays between development and GUI testing. However, only testing the core, code-level functionality of an application will give you a proper evaluation of overall build strength. Getting that indication early uncovers the kind of small, detailed problems that can crop up once you enter GUI - problems that can take more work and resources to unwind later in the QA process.

The time and expense of API testing produce the best results when paired with your engineer’s development work. Given the extreme rigors a healthcare application must pass - you can find a detailed checklist for meeting all theHIPAA regulatory standards here - API testing gives you a check-as-you-go advantage further down the release cycle.

Save Resources

Automated API testing frees up your engineers to focus on the high-priority, high-value areas of your application. They’re no longer tasked with mundane actions such as manual data entry to mount multiple test executions and the staging and restaging of repetitive test execution. Instead, automated API testing helps provide the lightning-speeds needed to remain competitive in the current era of breakneck DevOps.

Those savings are felt when you’re performing bulk testing, including load, functionality, and reliability testing. You’ll see all sorts of efficiency savings once you grant your QA team and their automated process access to the core functionality of your healthcare app. For example, automation allows engineers to verify existing features alongside the newly written code, vastly improving your regression cycles. You’ll get similar improvements once you start testing and creating reports across various formats and, crucially, platforms.

The less time you spend on the manual testing of the GUI phase, the more time and money you’ll save across your project.

Why is API Testing so Important to Healthcare?

API testing is important to healthcare app development in particular, since applications must often meet complex usage, security, and regulatory compliance requirements. For healthcare app development, API testing is critical in:

Identifying problems early in the lifecycle;

Integrating with third-party services;

Enabling must-have mobile usage; and

Securing patient data.

Faster and More Efficient

Here’s a simple comparison to demonstrate the time you’ll save through API testing. Since GUI requires that each webpage element be polled, the process is slowed down considerably. Here’s the difference that makes across the process of testing your core functionality (in parallel execution):

That’s a remarkable difference. Once you factor in the extraordinary complexity of your healthcare application, which will eventually have to withstandmassive amounts of patient data each day, you really get an idea of the API advantage.

We understand the time pressures that come to bear within a release cycle, and the resulting temptation to skip over API testing. But if you want your application to function properly, to be secure and reliable, then you must consider the benefits of API testing. It gets you closer to the core of your application. It lets you ensure there’s a stable foundation beneath your healthcare app before you go on to consider final user capabilities. In a field so affected by security and compliance issues, it’s a must.

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